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When building loosely coupled cloud apps, microservices are today’s preferred pattern. James Lewis and Martin Fowler wrote the seminal introduction, and the concept has been disseminated widely since. While Lewis and Fowler’s entire post is a fantastic read, one specific requirement stands out: microservices must favor “smart endpoints and dumb pipes.”…See More

Let’s face it. IT has traditionally been looked down upon and minimized as a “cost center.” If you bought software or technology in the enterprise, you looked to the IT team to support it. IT was rarely strategic, despite many positioning it that way.In the early days, businesses bought anything and everything, and had IT run it, resulting in a department that grew haphazardly with many inconsistencies. Most IT departments then took on the challenge of rationalizing and reconciling their IT…See More

The world is rapidly being reshaped by software. It’s changing everything: how we work, how we monitor our health, how we spend time with our families, and more. Over time, quality of life around the world will continue to increase as a result of today’s unsung heroes: software developers. With more developers writing apps, we’ll see even more innovation and a world we can’t even dream of today.Last week, Microsoft announced that it is…See More

Focus on the enterprise and its needs is becoming an obvious differentiator in the market. I am the CEO at Apprenda, and our independence allows us to integrate with the customers’ enterprise stack (not some add-on product) while our deep focus on .NET and Java give more capabilities to organizations’ frameworks.Rene Hermes, General Manager at Apprenda, has been busy establishing…See More

Every day, more non-software businesses are making software the backbone of their business, adding to their revenue streams in a diversified, high-margin way and becoming software-defined enterprises.A software-defined enterprise is defined in two ways – either a company that focuses on using software in the “back office” to run more efficiently OR generates new revenue with externally facing “front office”…See More

Every day, more non-software businesses are making software the backbone of their business, adding to their revenue streams in a diversified, high-margin way and becoming software-defined enterprises.A software-defined enterprise is defined in two ways – either a company that focuses on using software in the “back office” to run more efficiently OR generates new revenue with externally facing “front office”…See More

Let’s cut through the chatter about mobile enterprise strategies and talk about what these enterprises are really up against. An enterprise mobile strategy requires setting up an on-premises common back end system for getting the hundreds of applications and thousands of workflows that they want to expose to thousands - or even millions - of customers, partners and internal employees via mobile devices.Most mobile applications connect to one or more server-side web service APIs that expose the…See More

Over the past year, private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) gained significant adoption by large corporations, building momentum that will exponentially increase in 2014. Organizations across a variety of industries turned cloud into reality through PaaS after realizing the benefits including faster application development, reduced costs, and the ability to turn software into a revenue-generating business.One example of a large company that adopted PaaS in 2013 is JPMorgan Chase. Given the scale…See More

Public cloud is tremendously popular – there’s no question. However, enterprises have yet to consume public IaaS and PaaS in an “at-scale” way. They dabble in public IaaS and PaaS here and there, but public cloud is home to only a *tiny* minority of enterprise application workloads. Why? Enterprise workloads are trapped within the firewall by a few key constraints (some perceived, some political, some real - in order of constraint complexity):Dependencies – Custom apps written by enterprises…See More

Public cloud is tremendously popular – there’s no question. However, enterprises have yet to consume public IaaS and PaaS in an “at-scale” way. They dabble in public IaaS and PaaS here and there, but public cloud is home to only a *tiny* minority of enterprise application workloads. Why? Enterprise workloads are trapped within the firewall by a few key constraints (some perceived, some political, some real - in order of constraint complexity):Dependencies – Custom apps written by enterprises…See More

We have a saying in our company, “custom applications are the currency of the future.” The Global 2000 have massive custom application portfolios, and that will never change. These types of workloads require the adoption of change in both how we build quality applications and then how we manage them.What likely comes to mind is how “cloud” will shift the next generation of enterprise computing. At the end of the day, no matter how enterprises adopt cloud and with what magical vendor make-up or…See More

We have a saying in our company, “custom applications are the currency of the future.” The Global 2000 have massive custom application portfolios, and that will never change. These types of workloads require the adoption of change in both how we build quality applications and then how we manage them.What likely comes to mind is how “cloud” will shift the next generation of enterprise computing. At the end of the day, no matter how enterprises adopt cloud and with what magical vendor make-up or…See More

Let’s cut through the chatter about mobile enterprise strategies and talk about what these enterprises are really up against. An enterprise mobile strategy requires setting up an on-premises common back end system for getting the hundreds of applications and thousands of workflows that they want to expose to thousands - or even millions - of customers, partners and internal employees via mobile devices.Most mobile applications connect to one or more server-side web service APIs that expose the…See More

I've looked at the historical implications of app servers and what that says for the category of Platform as a Service (PaaS).What we know is that developers invent new architecture patterns all the time. The invention of new architectures is generally motivated by trying to accomplish more with less. Take multi-tenancy, for example. In its current…See More

"As you mention Sinclair, early deployment-only PaaS offerings drive down procurement timeframe and cost associated with run-time operations, yet do little to solve design and development time challenges. Pent-up demand exists for a PaaS that will…"

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Sinclair Schuller is an enterprise computing expert and CEO of Apprenda, a company shifting how enterprises build, deploy and manage their next generation applications. Apprenda started in 2007, and prior to that, Schuller was a sought out consultant in cloud computing, SaaS and enterprise application development.

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When building loosely coupled cloud apps, microservices are today’s preferred pattern. James Lewis and Martin Fowler wrote the seminal introduction, and the concept has been disseminated widely since. While Lewis and Fowler’s entire post is a fantastic read, one specific requirement stands out: microservices must favor “smart endpoints and dumb pipes.”…

Let’s face it. IT has traditionally been looked down upon and minimized as a “cost center.” If you bought software or technology in the enterprise, you looked to the IT team to support it. IT was rarely strategic, despite many positioning it that way.

In the early days, businesses bought anything and everything, and had IT run it, resulting in a department that grew haphazardly with many inconsistencies. Most IT departments then took on the challenge of rationalizing and reconciling…

The world is rapidly being reshaped by software. It’s changing everything: how we work, how we monitor our health, how we spend time with our families, and more. Over time, quality of life around the world will continue to increase as a result of today’s unsung heroes: software developers. With more developers writing apps, we’ll see even more innovation and a world we can’t even dream of today.

Focus on the enterprise and its needs is becoming an obvious differentiator in the market. I am the CEO at Apprenda, and our independence allows us to integrate with the customers’ enterprise stack (not some add-on product) while our deep focus on .NET and Java give more capabilities to organizations’ frameworks.